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Identity Mistaken.

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What kind of job interview IS THIS?

So this dude named Guy goes to the BBC to apply for a job.

When he thinks he's going to get interviewed for said job, he gets shuffled into a studio and ends up in the hot seat on Live TV getting interviewed about arcane technology law.

Turns out that they thought he was someone else--an IT expert with the same first name.

Our stories: Engaging. Our conversations: Lively. Our music: Nifty. The Overdrive team is Luis Perez, Shantell Jamison, and Sarah Lu, and we're on-air Monday through Friday from 4-7 pm.
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on 4:19pm, Monday, September 13 2010

I'm usually pretty good at picking up on differences.

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And I'm not the only one. Chalk it up to Susan's edu-taining songs, or the way humans are hard wired, but boy is our species really good at picking up on an accent here, a physical characteristic there, this person's hairstyle, and that person's religion.

Humans are so good at it, that it surprises and delights me when I hear the kinds of stories we're going to hear today on the Vocalo Overdrive: stories of being accepted, welcomed, and brought into the fold, against our expectations.

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Tania describes times when she's thought of herself as white, and other times when she thought of herself as black.

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Isabella, who lives in the Humboldt Park neighborhood of Chicago, shares her experiences and insights related to mixed identity in the U.S.

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